Most Popular Pollution Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Pollution Topic Page over the last year.
#1 Bayer Faces Billions in Payouts for Decades-Old Toxic Mess
Jan 16 2025 // Bayer AG’s Monsanto unit stopped making toxic PCBs a half century ago, but the legal fallout lingers even as many of the building materials made with the chemicals are no longer used in US homes, schools and...
#2 Trump Mounts Sweeping Attack on Pollution and Climate Rules
Mar 13 2025 // The Trump administration is launching a sweeping overhaul of US environmental mandates in a campaign it billed as the “biggest deregulatory action” of its kind in US history. The Environmental Protection Agency...
#3 Trump Administration Halts Environmental Litigation, Sidelines Lawyers: Sources
Jan 27 2025 // U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has halted all pending environmental litigation and reassigned four career Justice Department attorneys focused on environmental issues, according to three sources...
#4 Actuary Group Forecasts Climate Change to Have Massive GDP Hit Without Policy Action
Jan 17 2025 // Here’s stark warning in a new report from a group of actuaries: the global economy could face a 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090. That is if immediate policy actions on risks posed by climate change are not...
#5 ‘World’s Largest Truck Stop’ Fined $390K by EPA
Jan 28 2025 // Two truck stops in Iowa and Missouri – Iowa 80, advertised as “the world’s largest truck stop,” and Joplin 44 – agreed to pay a combined $390,784 to resolve alleged violations of the federal Clean...
#6 Insurer Says Pollution Exclusion Sinks Coverage for Pool Chemical Injuries
Nov 26 2024 // A commercial general liability policy with a pollution exclusion does not protect a Virginia homeowners association from lawsuits filed by swimmers alleging they were injured by chemicals discharged into the community...
#7 EPA Issues Rare Emergency Ban on Pesticide That Damages Fetuses
Aug 9 2024 // For the first time in roughly 40 years, the Environmental Protection Agency used its emergency authority to halt the sale of a weed-killing pesticide that harms the development of unborn babies. Officials took the rare...
#8 Amid Clean up From LA Wildfires, Some Residents Furious Over Hazardous Waste
Feb 3 2025 // Not far from where Ceci Carroll lives, a rock-mining company has polluted the air with dust across the San Gabriel Valley, she said. Now, as crews clean charred remains from the Los Angeles wildfires, she worries about a...
#9 Judge Allows Lobster Fishermen to Sue Environmental Group for Defamation
Mar 6 2025 // A group of lobster fishermen can sue one of the world’s largest seafood watchdog groups for defamation, a federal court has ruled, over a report that described Maine lobster as an unwise choice for consumers. The...
#10 EPA Submits to Congress Approved EV Plan Adopted by 11 States
Feb 20 2025 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday it has submitted the Biden administration’s approval of California’s landmark plan to end the sale of gasoline-only vehicles by 2035 to Congress for...
#11 Supreme Court Blocks EPA’s ‘Good Neighbor’ Air Pollution Plan
Jun 28 2024 // The U.S. Supreme Court blocked an Environmental Protection Agency regulation aimed at reducing ozone emissions that may worsen air pollution in neighboring states, handing a victory on Thursday to three Republican-led...
#12 People Moves: RT Specialty Promotes 6 in New Jersey Environmental/Construction Team
May 22 2024 // Daniel Wilhelm RT Specialty, headquartered in Chicago, made several promotions in its Hamilton, New Jersey office, part of the RT Specialty Environmental and Construction Professional Practice (RT ECP). Daniel Wilhelm was...
#13 Georgia County to Sue BioLab Over Chemical Fire and Toxic Fumes
Oct 25 2024 // CONYERS, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia county is preparing a federal lawsuit that aims to shut down the BioLab chemical factory where a fire sent a toxic chemical cloud over Atlanta’s suburbs last month, the latest in a...
#14 People Moves: Mosaic Builds Out Environmental Liability Team With 13 US Hires
Sep 11 2024 // Mosaic, headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda, has added 13 U.S. environmental risk specialists to its team. Team members include Assistant Vice President Iraj Dehnavi, Senior Vice President Maureen Domenicone, Vice President...
#15 Environmental Group Turns to Oyster Shells to Rebuild Sinking Louisiana Coastline
Oct 3 2024 // Jonathan Phillips says he thinks about Louisiana’s disappearing coastline every day. As a commercial fisherman and member of the Atakapa-Ishak/Chawasha tribe, he sees water levels rising in Plaquemines Parish...
#16 Environmental Group Sues Tyson Foods for Alleged False Climate Claims
Sep 19 2024 // An environmental group is suing Tyson Foods for allegedly misleading consumers by saying it will reach net-zero emissions by 2050 and marketing climate-friendly beef without meaningful plans to achieve those goals. The...
#17 Los Angeles County Sues PepsiCo and Coca-Cola Over Plastic Pollution
Nov 1 2024 // Los Angeles County has sued beverage makers PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, accusing them of polluting the most populous U.S. county with plastic bottles and misleading the public about the environmental impact and recyclability of...
#18 Maryland Sues Gore-Tex Maker Over ‘Forever Chemicals’ Pollution
Dec 30 2024 // Maryland is suing the company that produces the waterproof material Gore-Tex often used for raincoats and other outdoor gear, alleging its leaders kept using “forever chemicals” long after learning about...
#19 Maine Town’s Plan to Remove Two Dams Includes Marina Insurance Measure
Jan 16 2025 // The Yarmouth town council voted unanimously this month to remove two town-owned dams on the Royal River and consider fish passage improvements at a stretch of rapids in between them, a historic vote more than two decades...
#20 Group Calls New Jersey’s Toxic Waste Dump Settlement ‘Woefully Inadequate’
Dec 20 2024 // Years of toxic waste dumping in a Jersey Shore community where childhood cancer rates rose caused at least $1 billion in damage to natural resources, according to an environmental group trying to overturn a settlement...
